单词 | pipeless |
释义 | pipelessadj. Having no pipe or pipes (in various senses). ΚΠ 1849 Times 29 Oct. 4/4 ‘Who is to pay the piper?’ This is the sum and substance of Sir J. Hanmer's reply to the gasping tenants of his five and thirty houses in the pipeless Rookery. 1869 Appletons' Jrnl. 17 Apr. 66/2 All seemed relieved except one, who was the patriarch of the band, the man with the pipeless hat. 1870 Athenæum 19 Nov. 653 All the tobacconists' shops..were closed, and Ned arrived at his habitation pipeless and weedless. 1900 Daily News 30 Nov. 5/6 A native house, heated by a Chinese pipeless stove. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 65/4 (advt.) Furnaces, both pipe and pipeless, and household goods. 1991 C. Jennings Now we are Thirty-something (BNC) 55 My wife and I installed a pipeless furnace inlaid with emeralds and jade. 2004 Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel (Nexis) 9 Mar. e1 A pipeless electric organ was moved in. The church had been told its pipe organ was hopeless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1849 |
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